ASSESSMENT IN A CONSRTUCTIVIST,TECHNOLOGY- SUPPORTED LEARNING

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           I have learned that being a student, I should go beyond memorizing for test and should not study only for score and a passing grade.The teacher should conduct assessment practice  that will be congruent with the constructivist's thinking,which is a higher level form that will require the display of the basic skills of writing and speaking skills,computing and the more complex skills of applying concepts learned, analyzing, integrating and creating, critiquing and evaluating and the social skills of working with others. Such higher form of assessment will call for altercate form of assessment.

          Authentic assessment is the most appropriate for the constructivist classroom.It measures collective abilities,written and oral expression skills,analytical skills,manipulative skills,integration, creativity, and ability to work collaboratively.With the kind of assessment, students perform real world tasks. It is an assessment of the process or a product.The performance is the reliable measure of skills learned and the product is the proof of the acquisition of skills. In doing authentic assessment, the teacher should make use of of the scoring rubric in order to objectively observe and evaluate student's performance.With scoring rubric, the standards are clearly set at the beginning the teacher and the students. With rubric,the student can assess her or his progress.In this case the much fear foe the test gets dispelled.Assessment is the natural and normal part of the learning process. There are no more secrets on how students will be tested,what kind of question will be asked.The students themselves know how their progress gets assessed.

           Aside from authentic assessment, there is also the need of performance-based assessment or product assessment.It is a direct assessment.With this assessment, the teacher measures the student's computer skills directly in an authentic or real-life setting.

          In technology-supported classroom, the students learn from and with technology. Technology is seen as source of information that the students learn from in the same way that the are a source of information. The students master facts and concepts from technology and with the aid of technology.